Tell Me a Riddle
Circling in psychological time, Tillie Olsen depicts the death of a working-class grandmother, a past proletarian revolutionary in Russia, and how her death devastates her family in mid-twentieth-century America.

The Death of Ivan Illich
Leo Tolstoy's cancer-ravaged Czarist bureaucrat weighs his life, searching for semblances of meaning in a linear, realistic story.

Original title: The Riddle of Life and Death: Tell Me a Riddle and The Death of Ivan IllichOriginal languages:
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